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weston build with rdp backend

Bug #1654864 reported by John Moser on 2017-01-08

This bug affects 5 people

Affects		Status	Importance	Assigned to	Milestone
	weston (Debian)	New	Unknown	debbugs #850658
	weston (Ubuntu)	Fix Released	Wishlist	Unassigned

Bug Description

Submitting a patch to build Weston with weston-rdp compositor. This patch is against the Zesty source package and adds a weston-rdp-compositor package.

This plus an Xwayland install and an additional script should help close #220005

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John Moser (nigelenki) wrote on 2017-01-08:

This builds. I haven't tested if it works--I don't have the environment for it--but it builds. Corrects an out-of-date data format in compositor-rdp.c to make it build correctly.

Please verify.

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Ubuntu Foundations Team Bug Bot (crichton) wrote on 2017-01-08:

The attachment "[EXPERIMENTAL] A patch for weston 1.12.0-1" seems to be a debdiff. The ubuntu-sponsors team has been subscribed to the bug report so that they can review and hopefully sponsor the debdiff. If the attachment isn't a patch, please remove the "patch" flag from the attachment, remove the "patch" tag, and if you are member of the ~ubuntu-sponsors, unsubscribe the team.

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John Moser (nigelenki) wrote on 2017-01-08:

[EXPERIMENTAL] A patch for weston 1.12.0-2 Edit (2.8 KiB, text/plain)

The thing said to make a debdiff, so I figured out how to do that in the last 5 hours or so.

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-01-11

Changed in weston (Debian):
status:	Unknown → New

Sebastien Bacher (seb128) on 2017-01-11

Changed in weston (Ubuntu):
importance:	Undecided → Wishlist
status:	New → Triaged

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-01-17

Changed in weston (Debian):
status:	New → Fix Released

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Bhavani Shankar (bhavi) wrote on 2017-01-23:

Fixed in the latest ubuntu upload (via automatic sync from Debian).

Changed in weston (Ubuntu):
status:	Triaged → Fix Released

Bug Watch Updater (bug-watch-updater) on 2017-02-14

Changed in weston (Debian):
status:	Fix Released → New

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Dave Thompson (dwt-h) wrote on 2017-05-17:

Pardon my ignorance but how does one obtain the "weston-rdp-compositor" package?

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technic (alexeytech) wrote on 2019-02-27:

This is not fixed!

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John Moser (nigelenki) wrote on 2020-01-07:

The Debian update has been reverted because freerdp2 isn't in testing and doesn't build everywhere.

Weston's RDP compositor back-end would make a number of things possible, notably exposing a LightDM or GDM greeter on RDP. This would allow HD tablets and Netbooks to log in remotely, e.g. via the Android RDP client, Windows RDP client, or FreeRDP. Weston supports switching backends without logging out, allowing attachment to the running session, which means an appropriate greeter can supply VDI by switching to a user's running session on login locally or over RDP.

One cannot overlook the advantages in cost, flexibility, and reduced environmental footprint—thin clients include small computers drawing under 1 watt average power—and an RDP compositor backend is a critical component of such a feature.

Perhaps it would be best to specify a more-complete roadmap to Ubuntu VDI with the resolution of this bug being a part of that.